AP World History Unit 1 Flashcards

7353774452	marker event	events in that are very significant or involved a big change inn something	0
7353774453	perspective	point of view	1
7353775589	demography	study of population Greek meanings: demos - people/population graphe to describe	2
7353775590	migrations	permanent moves to a new location	3
7353777314	push factor	encourages people to migrate to somewhere else	4
7353777315	pull factor	attracts migrating people to new region	5
7353779692	intervening obstacles	physical features that slow/halt migration	6
7353779693	cultural diffusion	the process of moving innovations, technology, religion, languages, food, clothing, disease (or culture) through population movement	7
7353787565	periodization	dividing history into smaller chunks of time to make studying a period easier	8
7353796085	agriculture	the deliberate tending of crops and livestock to produce food and fiber	9
7353796086	bipedalism	the preference of walking on two legs rather then four	10
7353798584	Catal Huyuk	a small city in southern Turkey	11
7353800728	division of labor	giving different people different jobs rather than all doing the same one	12
7353800729	horticulture	similar to agriculture but only used hand tools used animals to pull plows first to settle in one place	13
7353803139	independent invention	the forming of ideas and innovations using no cultural diffusion	14
7353804578	Jericho	a small city on the Jordan River	15
7353804579	Lucy	a three million year old African skeleton that was a cross between a human and a bipedal ape	16
7353807890	Neolithic Craft Industries	Pottery: stored food, waterproof Metallurgy: weapons, tools, jewelry Textiles:early as 6000 B.C.E., made cloth	17
7353810040	Neolithic/Agricultural Revolution	a marker event that refers to the change over from gathering food (hunter-gatherer) to producing food (agriculture)	18
7353810041	Paleolithic Age	Old Stone Age 70,000-8000 B.C.E.	19
7353811663	pastoralism	the domesticating of animals and remaining semi nomadic	20
7353811664	polytheism	the belief in multiple gods	21
7353812998	primary sources	original evidence from the time period	22
7354216562	private property	the process of people settling down and accumulating goods and land	23
7353814315	specialization	giving people the jobs they do the best so all the work can get done faster	24
7353814316	surplus	more crops than the farmer needs for just his family	25
7353818926	Akkadian Empire	the first true empire led by Sargon the Great conquered all of Sumeria and Fertile Crescent dominated by town of Akkad	26
7353818927	Amon-Re	Egyptian god of the sun	27
7353820431	Analects	a collection of Confucius's works put together by the people who knew him	28
7353820432	Aryans	conquered the Indus Valley Civilization in 1500 B.C.E. invaders from the NW spoke Indo-European languages	29
7353820433	Assyrians	conquered the Hittite empire in Mesopotamia in 900 B.C.E.	30
7353822232	Babylonians	led by Hammurabi who conquered the Akkadian empire in Mesopotamia New Babylonians again conquered Assyrian Empire in Mesopotamia in 500 B.C.E.	31
7353822233	Book of the Dead	a book containing all of the rituals for preparing the Egyptian dead for the afterlife	32
7353823433	Book of Songs	a collection of Chinese poetry	33
7353823434	cataracts	areas where water was too fast and rocky for boats to go through	34
7353823435	Chavin	900-250 B.C.E civilization in Andean S America	35
7353824615	city-state	a large town that governed the surrounding land	36
7353824616	civilization	surpluses specialized jobs social class distinctions city growth formal governments long distance trade writing	37
7353826041	Confucianism	values and beliefs of philosophy and religion	38
7353826042	cosmopolitanism	the shared cultures and lifestyles that result when groups are in constant contact with each other	39
7353828697	cultural hearths	places where civilizations first began to come up with ideas	40
7353828698	cuneiform	"wedge-shaped" the writing of Mesopotamia using a reed and wet clay	41
7361376363	divination	a way of communicating with gods to determine their intentions	42
7353831923	Dravidian	a language similar to the ones spoken in southern India	43
7353831924	dynasty	consecutive rulers from the same family	44
7353831925	dynastic cycles	rise, gain strength, weakened, taken over by new dynasty	45
7353834829	Epic of Gilgamesh	2000 B.C.E wrote down the story that had been passed down orally since 6000 B.C.E Gilgamesh wanted immortality (failed) Utnapishtm was like Noah and flood	46
7353834830	Fertile Crescent	Mid-East area from Mesopotamia to Egypt Sumeria	47
7353837044	Hammurabi	leader of the Babylonians who conquered the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia	48
7353838487	Hammurabi's Code	inscribed o a black pillar used to give judges examples of punishments and justice in the first Babylonian empire	49
7353838488	Harappa	the second major city in the Indus valley civilization	50
7353839919	Hatshepsut	only female pharaoh of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E) started as a regent (stand in) for her son but then ruled on her own she thought of herself as a man more for trade rather than war	51
7353839920	Hittites	conquered Babylonian empire in Mesopotamia in 1500 B.C.E. Originated in Anatolia (Turkey) lots of trade used iron working to hep military	52
7353839921	Horus	sky god pharaohs are reincarnations of him represented by hawk son of Isis and Osiris	53
7353841191	Hyksos	a people from modern day Turkey that conquered the Egyptians because of their bronze weapons	54
7353841192	Isis	Egyptian goddess of Nile and fertility	55
7353842610	labor systems	coordinated efforts to get the work done	56
7353842611	Late Bronze Age	1700-1100 B.C.E characterized by the development of cosmopolitanism	57
7353844066	law code	a systematic set of rules administered by the government	58
7353844067	loess	thick fertile yellow ish soil deposited from the flood of the Yellow River in China	59
7353844068	ma'at	divinely controlled order of universe	60
7353845776	mandate of heaven	dynasties ruled as long as they pleased the gods actions against gods - overthrown	61
7353845777	matrilineal	female line of descent	62
7353847567	Menes	first pharaoh united upper and lower Egypt	63
7353847568	Mesopotamia	"land between two rivers" Tigris and Euphrates Fertile Crescent modern day Turkey	64
7353847569	Minoans	an advanced civilization in Crete named after King Minos	65
7353850036	Mohenjo-Daro	one of the major cities in the Indus Valley Civilization	66
7353850037	monsoon rains	feed Indus rivers and tributaries with seasonal winds and rains	67
7353851988	Mycenaeans	an advanced civilization on the Greek mainland warlike and aggressive controlled trade in the region	68
7353851989	Olmec	"rubber people" 1200-400 B.C.E civilization in Mesoamerica	69
7353853500	oracle bones	wrote questions on bones, put in fire, cracked, interpreted cracks as answer from gods	70
7355091453	Osiris	Egyptian god of afterlife	71
7353853501	papyrus	picked reeds, cut open, pressed together, and laid out to dry, the sap glued them together then scribes could write on it	72
7353853502	patriarchy	dominated by men	73
7353855019	pharaoh	heart of the government god-king had more power than anyone else in history believed to be reincarnations of Horus	74
7353857528	pictographs	pictures representing animals, people, and objects	75
7353857529	Rosetta Stone	the stone used to decode the Egyptian Hieroglyphics	76
7353859577	Sargon the Great	leader of invading Semitic group that first conquered Sumeria	77
7353861285	Semitic	language that was the precursor to Hebrew and Arabic	78
7353861286	shaman	people who could write and who used oracle bones	79
7353862821	Shang Dynasty	the first real Chinese dynasty lasted from 1750-1200 B.C.E	80
7353862822	shi	best educated men in empire scribes, clerks, advisors, overseers kept records ran public works organized rituals	81
7353862823	social mobility	the ability for people to change social classes	82
7353864451	Sumerians	first non-Semetic group in Mesopotamia first true civilization first to use city-states	83
7353864452	systems failure	a breakdown of the political, economical, and social systems that hold a civilization together	84
7353866463	theocracy	governed by gods or priests	85
7353866464	tribute	payment in produce from ordinary people that supported the king and his court	86
7353866465	vassals	governors of a specific area that worked only for the king	87
7353868340	Xia Dynasty	the first Chinese dynasty that still hasn't been proved to exist	88
7353868341	Zhou Dynasty	1100 B.C.E. - conquered Shang Dynasty formed longest lived dynasty first dynasty to keep records	89
7353875027	ziggurats	large multi-story pyramids dedicated to a specific god in the middle of each city-state	90